American spies : espionage against the US from the Cold War to the present / / Michael J. Sulick

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462992903321
• Autore: Sulick Michael J
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, DC : , : Georgetown University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• ISBN: 1-64712-045-4; 1-62616-009-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (385 p.)
• Disciplina: 327.120973
• Soggetti: Espionage - United States; Espionage - United States - History - 20th century; Espionage - United States - History - 21st century; Spies - United States; Spies - United States - History; Spies - Communist countries; Intelligence service - United States - History - 20th century; Cold War; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The Cold War: 1950-1970 -- The KGB rebuilds -- Spies in the enlisted ranks -- Vietnam and the 1960s -- Decade of turmoil: the 1970s -- Espionage and the 1970s -- Soviet science and technology espionage -- James Angleton and the spy hunt in the CIA -- The decade of the spy: Soviet spies of the 1980s -- Espionage in the 1980s -- Evil spy for the evil empire: John Walker -- The spy in the National Security Agency: Ronald Pelton -- A spy in the CIA: Edward Lee Howard -- The spy in the US Marine Corps: Clayton Lonetree -- The decade of the spy: other spies of the 1980s -- An illegal in the CIA: Karl Koecher -- The Army's John Walker: Clyde Conrad -- Spies for East Germany: James Michael Hall and Jeffrey Carney -- The spy for China: Larry Wu-Tai Chin -- The spy for Israel: Jonathan Pollard -- Espionage and the new world order: ; the 1990s -- The end of the Cold War and US counterespionage -- Aldrich Ames and his impact on the CIA -- The spy in the FBI: Robert Hanssen -- The last vestiges of Cold War espionage -- Espionage in the new millennium -- New threats, old threats -- Chinese nuclear espionage and Wen Ho Lee -- Spies for China -- Spies for Cuba I: Ana Belen Montes -- Spies for Cuba II: Kendall and Gwendolyn Myers -- Espionage and the war on terrorism -- Cyberespionage.
• Sommario/riassunto: What's your secret?. American Spies presents the stunning histories of more than forty Americans who spied against their country during the past six decades. Michael Sulick, former head of the CIA's clandestine service, illustrates through these stories-some familiar, others much less well known-the common threads in the spy cases and the evolution of American attitudes toward espionage since the onset of the Cold War. After highlighting the accounts of many who have spied for traditional adversaries such as Russian and Chinese intelligence services, Sulick shows how spy hunters today confront